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Readers' Editor

Shailaja Bajpai is ThePrint's Readers' Editor
Shailaja Bajpai is ThePrint’s Readers’ Editor

The Readers’ Editor is an initiative by The Print to be accessible and responsive to its readers. Each month, Shailaja Bajpai, as Readers’ Editor, highlights readers’ views on ThePrint’s content and writes about issues that confront journalism in a dense and highly contested media environment.

Chaos, multiple angles, and a terror module—ThePrint took a deep dive into Red Fort blast case

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With the major aspects of the immediate incident covered, the six reporters on the ground set about sending back stories as the smoke from the debris lifted and a clearer picture of the site emerged.
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Meet ThePrint’s new reporters — a lawyer, an ex-KPMG manager & an edtech founder

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Udit Hinduja, Udit Bubna, and Ruchi Bhattar show how ThePrint School of Journalism gives people from diverse backgrounds a path into the newsroom.
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ThePrint is widening its lens. New shows on AI, economy, bureaucracy—and fresh newsletters

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The latest additions to ThePrint’s properties will improve your understanding of the India we live in, whether it's through the prism of AI or civil services.
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ThePrint at 8. Readers are evangelists, critics, and asserting their ‘right’

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We welcome criticism and accept it in the spirit it is made: to help us improve ThePrint.
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‘More careful than colourful’—ThePrint’s reporting on the Air India crash put facts first

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The common thread in ThePrint's reporting—from the ground and Delhi—is the effort to stick to verified facts and clearly attributed views. Anything else could be misleading.
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Expert voices in public spaces—what ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers

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ThePrint Speakers Bureau offers an opportunity to engage with experts from diverse fields, like RSS intellectual Seshadri Chari, TMC MP Sagarika Ghose, and historian Anirudh Kanisetti.
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Pahalgam, Pakistan generals, pitches—what readers wrote to us in May

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Quite often, I receive backhanded compliments that are actually complaints.
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How ThePrint’s small newsroom brought you Pahalgam from every angle, minus the noise

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We had to deploy our resources intelligently to tell readers what had happened in the attack, what happened thereafter, and what may happen in the near future.
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You can now own a piece of ThePrint. Great speeches tote bags to Cut the Clutter hoodies

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Five tote bags with quotes from BR Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee are on offer. 'People can choose what resonates with them'.
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Inside ThePrint’s mailbox—readers bring us praise, critique, and everything in between

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One minute, I am being questioned about the “Razakars and their oppressive rule”. Next, a reader demands an app for the website. Another reader from Thailand wants to contribute articles to ThePrint.
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Opinion

The math behind India’s elections—Why proximity matters

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It is one of the most consistent findings in electoral politics: voters are more likely to support candidates who come from their local area.

The inherited intolerance of ‘my-god-the-only-god’. Why peace fails

Operation Meghdoot—How Indian artillery repelled Pakistan at Bilafond La in 1984

Economy

US ends oil waivers but Russian crude flows to India ‘likely to remain steady’ amid Hormuz disruption

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India will need to recalibrate crude sourcing strategy as US ends waivers for Russian & Iranian oil, energy experts say. But Russian crude will likely remain central to energy basket.

Defence

Why Siliguri Corridor is strategically important for India & how it is being secured | Cut The Clutter

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This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.

National Interest

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

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American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.

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